Stories by Gary Ng

“Find My Friends” Helped Police Find Her Husband

Police in Gloucestershire, UK, have managed to track down a missing man using the app “Find My Friends”.  On July 2nd, a woman reported her husband missing. She told police he had taken his iPhone with him. Gloucestershire police began searching for the man. The woman remembered her husband's login details for his phone and...
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Google Chrome for iOS Review: Impressions One Week Later

The epic battle between Apple and Google continues, as the latter released its Chrome browser in the App Store last week. Which will emerge victorious in the battle for iOS browser supremacy? Our review will attempt to answer this question, after testing and using Chrome for the past week. Upon launching the application for the...

Google Places Gets Update and New Name

Google has updated their iOS app, Google Places and is now called Google+ Local. Added to this update is speech recognition, an improved interface and Zagat reviews. The speech recognition is quite good and my verbal requests for things such as “Japanese Food” and “Coffee Shops”. I did manage to find a bug in the...

HTC Successfully Challenges Apple Patents in British Court

In a British high court today, Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC managed to defeat Apple in a series of legal challenges relating to patents, most notably the prized “Slide to Unlock”. Apple’s patent relating to the “Multi-touch” was also found to be partly invalid. HTC also successful challenged an Apple patent on the use of different...

Toronto Crimestoppers iPhone App Officially Announced for Download

For those in Toronto, you can now get engaged with the Crimestoppers program via your iPhone. The organization has launched a new free app to enable citizens to submit tips anonymously, protected by the Supreme Court of Canada. According to an interview with the Canadian Press: Const. Martin Douglas, Toronto Crime Stoppers youth and social...

EA and Warner Bros. 4th of July Sale: All Apps Are $0.99 or Free

Electronic Arts has a history of reducing the price of their apps around holidays and this Fourth of July is no exception. Normal the newest titles aren’t put on sale but this time around every iPhone and iPad app is 99 cents or free, as announced on their blog: This Independence Day, add more games...

The History of iOS Release Dates Visualized [GRAPH]

If you've ever wondered how many days it takes between iOS betas to be released and the days final version have been out, you can now see it all in one place. Will Hains has painstakingly graphed all the beta and final release dates on his blog: The design is still a work-in-progress, and it...

Review: SimplyUs – An App to Help Happy Couples Couple Anywhere

This weekend when my girlfriend and I were discussing ways to improve our communications, I naturally suggested we look to the App Store. A quick search provided me with a few different options. I have a preference for free apps so I proceeded to install some of the more promising candidates. Finally, I installed on...

Apple 2012 Q3 Earnings Call Set for July 24th: Will Revenue Top $34B?

Apple updated its Investor News page yesterday to indicate their 2012 Q3 earnings call will take place on July 24th. Apple plans to conduct a conference call to discuss financial results of its third fiscal quarter on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. PT. During the 2012 Q2 earnings call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer noted...